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CameralabsReviewsSigma FP2 review The Sigma FP2 is a tiny full-frame modular body aimed at pro videographers. It has a 24.5 Megapixel, partially stacked full-frame sensor, 6k Open Gate, cropped 4k 120 and a viewfinder accessory.

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CameralabsReviewsFujifilm instax Pal 2 review The Fujifilm instax Pal 2 is a compact, fun camera designed to take everywhere and capture and share spontaneous moments.

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CameralabsReviewsTamron 12-20mm f2.8 review The Tamron 12-20mm f2.8 is a fully featured, small and light ultra-wide-angle zoom. Find out how it compares to other Sony and Nikkor zooms in my full review.…

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CameralabsReviewsHasselblad X2D II 100C review The Hasselblad X2D II 100C has a 100 Megapixel medium format sensor, 1TB of built-in storage, IBIS, a refreshingly different UI and a cunning approach to HDR and displays that’s way ahead of rivals.

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CameralabsReviewsPanasonic Lumix L10 review The Panasonic Lumix L10 is a premium compact camera with a 3x zoom, 20MP photos, powerful video features, flip-screen and viewfinder. Here's my review!…

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CameralabsReviewsSony RX10 V review Sony's RX10 V becomes the most powerful super-zoom camera, sporting a 24-600 range, decent sensor, great autofocus and weather-sealing.

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CameralabsReviewsOM System PEN review The OM System PEN is the welcome return to their flat-topped rangefinder styled series, with amazing IBIS and now a splash-proof body. Here's my full review!…

09.17

CameralabsReviewsCanon EOS R8 Mark II review Canon's EOS R8 Mark II is a mid-range mirrorless camera with a 24 Megapixel full-frame sensor, IBIS and an AF joystick! Find out more in my review so far.…

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CameralabsReviewsNikon Z 24-105mm f4-7.1 review The Nikon Z 24-105mm f4-7.1 is an affordable, small, and light zoom. Find out how it compares to other Nikkor zooms in my review.…

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CameralabsReviewsTamron 35-100mm f2.8 Di III review Tamron has designed a new f2.8 zoom with a unique 35-100mm range for Nikon Z and Sony Alpha cameras. Find out if its optical qualities makes this an attractive mid-range zoom in my full review.…

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo